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��ST P��PERY We have a mountain of lost property, some with names and some without and some are even casual

clothing. If your child is missing or in need of uniform, please come and check our Lost Property Room and

Cupboards.

We also have a multitude of various toys and bits & pieces that are handed into the office on a daily

basis. Things such as dolls, cars, children’s jewellery, even lunch containers and drink bottles. If your child

has lost a favourite toy or item, please ask them to come and check at the office.

SICKNESS It is that time of year when quite a lot of sickness presents in the community. There

have been reports of tonsillitis, school sores, chicken pox, and gastro.

School is a very tight knit community of children. They spend a lot of their time in class

learning closely together. Therefore, if you have a child who is unwell it is best to keep them at home until

they are well enough to attend school again. This will also prevent your child from having a

setback and becoming unwell again.

If your child is unwell, please call the office to let us know.

�OR ��UR ��A�Y �OV��BER

Friday 30th

• Book Club Orders due

back.

DE���BER

Monday 3rd—Friday 7th

• Artist in Residence Week.

Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th

• Parent Teacher Interviews

- see page 2 for booking

information. Wednesday 5th

Parent Payment forms due back

to the Administration Office. Friday 7th

• School Picnic from 4:30pm

and Artist in Residence

Concert at 6:00pm. Monday 10th

• Grade 6 Graduation.

• Grade 5 Beach Day–

Inverloch. Tuesday 11th

• DET State Wide Transition

Day for all Preps and Year

7s.

• Prep Transition Session at

WPS 9:15am—1:00pm.

• Parent Information

Morning: 9:30am-11:00am. Wednesday 12th

• Final Assembly 9:10am in

the Gym

Friday 14th

Grade 6 Beach Day– Inverloch Monday 17th– Wednesday 19th

• School & Local communi-

ty based excursions. Tuesday 18th

• Grade 1-4 Swimming

Program at YMCA

Thursday 20th

• No Educational Programs.

Friday 21st

• No Educational Programs.

Last Day Term 4 - Dismissal

at 1:30pm.

����A�Y 2019 Wednesday 30th

• Grade 1—6 Students

commence for 2019. NOTE: Prep students do not attend

on Wednesdays for all of Term 1.

• School fees due.

Thursday 31st

• Prep Students commence

for 2019.

Number 38 29th November, 2018

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WONTHAGGI PRIMARY SCHOOL ● Phone: (03) 5672 1600 ● Principal: Ms Wendy Bradley ● Email: wonthaggi.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au ● Website: www.wonthaggips.vic.gov.au ● Billson street (PMB 101) Wonthaggi, 3995

● Find us on Facebook

Our School Core Values: R

ESPECT R

ELATIONSHIPS B

ELONGING C

OMMUNITY G

ROWTH MINDSET

From the Principal Congratulations to our boys Softball Team, who yesterday won their way to become the State Champions. What a fantastic result! Your dedication, focus and endless hours of practice have certainly paid off. Thanks also to Bek Vagg, Will Rankin and Michelle Mabilia for your work and support of the team. Parent, Student, Teacher Conferences are running on Monday and Tuesday afternoon and early evening. Our students have been working on composing significant parts of their school reports and are very excited to share their learning with you. I am currently reading all of the student reports and I am so impressed with the level of reflective comments that our students have compiled. As a parent myself, I wish that I had these types of reports to look back on and celebrate with my children. If you haven’t booked your spot, please do so ASAP! Bookings are filling up quickly. With the recent unexpected absence of Andrew Inglis over the past couple of weeks, I am postponing the Parent, Student, Teacher Conferences for 5/6D. We wish Andrew a speedy recovery and will make plans with him on his return. Thank you for your understanding. As it happens every year, our staffing changes with exciting next steps for people. At the end of the year we will be saying farewell to: Jenna Elliot, who is off to Western Australia for the year. Emma Wilkinson, who will be commencing at Bittern Primary School. Cassie Pearce, who will be commencing at Morwell Central Primary School. Chris Terlich and Ruth Chambers have extended their leave from WPS for another 12 months. Kylie Horton and Jenny Alder, who have and will continue to be wonder-ful supports to our school, just wearing different hats in 2019. Joining us in 2019 will be:

Ashleigh Jordan, an experienced teacher who is currently employed at Elwood Primary School and previously at Fish Creek Primary School. Craig Leifting, a very experienced teacher, who is currently employed at Bass Valley Primary School. Ramanjot Chahal, a graduate teacher who cannot wait for next year to begin! And we welcome back, Tammy Grimley will continue with us in a full time capacity. We are currently organising for our new staff to join us on State-wide Transition Day, Tuesday 11th December. Please make them very welcome. On Tuesday 11th December we will also be welcoming our 2019 Prep stu-dents. There will be an informal information session in the Step into Prep room on the day (starting around 9.30), with morning tea, tissues and some surprises. This session will run for about 1 hour. Will Rankin and I have been working through some plans to engage our Grades 1, 2, 3 and 4s in swimming this Term. We are hoping to have all details confirmed by the end of this week, notices and consents will go home next week. Our clear swimming focus has always been the program offered in Term 1 and our pool is scheduled to be open again for the start of the 2019 school year. In the past (when our pool has been operational), we have had the opportunity to swim in Term 4 when the weather allows. As you can

imagine, there have been years where we haven’t been in the pool at all in Term 4, such is the unpredictability of South Gippsland weather.

Next week we welcome back Ruth Chambers and her band of musicians for our annual Artist in Residence Program. Ruth will be working will all grade levels over the week teaching songs and bush dances. The week culminates with the family picnic and whole school performance on Friday afternoon and into the early evening. This is a great night, so make sure that you have it on your calendar. At this stage the weather looks fine and we are keeping our fingers crossed that this can be an outdoor event. Without giving anything away, you might want to ensure that you have your dancing shoes on….

Wendy Bradley.

Principal.

00A Alexandra M For Challenging herself in Maths.

00B Flynn D For working hard to achieve his reading goal.

00C Riley R For getting very wet at Swimming.

12A Marlon J For demonstrating the school value community by helping others.

12B Lily-Anna B For making excellent progress in her writing.

12C Amelia T For fabulous effort creating the factory from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

12D Alyssa J For her dedication to her group Willy Wonker Project.

12E Lewis M For fantastic progress in his reading.

34A Jack B For Identifying and explaining figurative language examples when reading.

34B Logan S For making fantastic progress with his learning this year. Wonderful growth mindset Logan!

34C Malachi O For always bringing a sense of humour to 34C and brightening up the room.

34C Issabella G For being a kind and caring member of our class.

34D Nathan W For always having a go and sharing a growth mindset in all aspects of his work.

34D Cody G For his hard work and dedication to his maths this week and his Growth mindset!

56A Riley G For making good learning choices.

56C Jorja T For always bringing a smile into our classroom.

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STUDENT PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE - After feedback from families, we will be holding inter-views over two evenings on Monday 3rd December from 3:40pm to 6:00pm and Tuesday 4th December

from 3:40pm to 5:00pm. During the Student Parent Teacher Conferences, reports will be presented by the

students and discussed. Below is a link for you to book your conference time.

https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/code?code=pq6zr

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���OR EV%NS It is that time of the year again and we are holding our Christmas Raffle!

Raffle Tickets have been attached to this newsletter and are selling for $1 each and are due back no later

than Tuesday 11th December. The Raffle will be drawn at the last assembly for the year on Wednesday

12th December. Prizes are as follows;-

1st prize

∗ Family Pass 2 adults & 2 children Amaze’n Things, Phillip Island

∗ 2X Splatball Vouchers for Bass Coast Paintball, Wonthaggi

∗ 2x 2D Movie Passes Stadium 4, Leongatha

∗ 2x Free Games at Grumpy’s Mini Golf, Phillip Island

∗ Ceramic Owl

∗ 2x Photo Frames

2nd prize

∗ Family Pass State Coal Mine, Wonthaggi

∗ 2x Clip’n Climb Vouchers, Phillip Island

∗ 3x Platter Plates

∗ 2x Photo Frames

3rd prize

∗ $40 Mitchell & Co Vouchers

∗ 3x Platter Plates

∗ 2x Photo Frames

4th prize

∗ 2x Photo Frames

∗ Tea Light Candle Holder

∗ Small Trinket Box

Major Events Committee

Artist in Residence

3-7th December Friday the 7th of December:

BBQ starts from 4:30pm onwards

Concert starts 6:00pm promptly

We are very excited to announce that our Artist for next weeks Artist in Residence celebrations is Ruth

McKittrick Chambers. She is a well known and much loved local teacher and musician. She has taught two

generations of primary school students in the Bass Coast area, led local singing groups and been an active

community advocate for making learning accessible for people of all ages. Since taking Leave from her

Music and Oral Literacy teaching job here at WPS, Ruth has travelled the Northern Hemisphere working and

learning about world's best practice in education, particularly for reluctant learners. With her late husband

Pete, she also returned to West Arnhem Land (NT) and engaged remote Indigenous students in Music

Programs to engage and enhance Literacy learning.

Next week, Ruth will be working with our students in a music/dance program acknowledging identity and a

sense of place. Students will learn songs which celebrate Wonthaggi; local places, local relics and local

languages (Boon Wurrung, Italian and English). Students will also learn a number of bush dances that fami-

lies will be invited to participate with on Friday night when Ruth will be joined by members of her extended

family, staff and students to provide a big, live band! This will support our students as they showcase their

learning. See Pirili Chapman or Marc Ibrahim for further details.